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Russia completely severed ties with NATO: while they say that this is temporary

Russia suspends its mission to NATO, reports bbc.

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Russia is suspending the work of its mission to NATO, said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The activities of the military mission of the alliance and its information bureau will be suspended in Moscow. This is a response to the reduction of Russia's mission to NATO. The media have previously announced just such a response.

On October 6, NATO leadership decided to halve the Russian mission in the organization - expel eight diplomats and abolish two more positions. Previously, the number of Russian permanent missions in Brussels was 20 people - thus, it had to be reduced to 10 diplomatic employees.

“In response to NATO’s actions, we are suspending the work of our permanent mission to NATO, including the work of the chief military representative. Probably from November 1, or it will take a few more days,” Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow. “Secondly, we are suspending the activities of the NATO military communications mission in Moscow, the accreditation of its employees will be revoked as of November 1 of this year,” the minister continued (quotes from Interfax). “And thirdly, the activities of the NATO information bureau in Moscow, which was established at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium, are being terminated.”

On the subject: NATO excludes 8 Russians from mission for 'secret espionage'

A NATO spokesman said at the time that eight employees of the mission were stripped of their accreditation, as they were undeclared members of Russian intelligence.

The next day, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called the expelled employees "undeclared Russian intelligence officers."

“We have revoked the accreditations of eight members of the Russian mission to NATO who were undeclared Russian intelligence officers. This decision is not related to any specific events,” Stoltenberg said. “But overall we have seen an increase in malicious activity from Russia lately.”

Expected response

Kommersant, citing its sources, wrote that Russia may close its permanent mission to NATO as a response to the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats from Brussels.

The publication's interlocutors also assumed that retaliatory measures would affect the NATO military liaison mission in Moscow, which was created in 2002 and operates under the auspices of the Belgian Embassy. Its employees are granted diplomatic immunity. The NATO website says that the mission consists of 13 people, but according to Kommersant, in reality there are “at least half as many.”

“If NATO has any urgent matters, they can contact our ambassador in Belgium on these issues. The ambassador who ensures bilateral relations,” Lavrov said on Monday.

A message on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry said that “at the discretion of the alliance,” one of the ambassadors of NATO member countries in Moscow “may perform similar functions.”

NATO took note of Lavrov's words about the mutual closure of diplomatic missions, but has not yet received official notifications from Moscow, TASS reports citing the alliance's press service.

The NATO mission in Moscow was designed to promote dialogue and interaction between the alliance military committee in Brussels and the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Military cooperation between Russia and NATO was frozen in April 2014 at the initiative of the alliance, which thus reacted to the annexation of Crimea.

Russia and NATO

The Russian diplomatic mission to NATO was established in 1998. In May 2002, the Russia-NATO Council was created. With the participation of these bodies, several agreements on military-technical cooperation and joint exercises were signed.

Relations between the alliance and Russia began to deteriorate in August 2008 against the backdrop of the war in Georgia - then the activities of the Russia-NATO Council were suspended, but later resumed.

Relations between Russia and NATO are in a protracted crisis. On April 1, 2014, against the backdrop of the crisis around Ukraine, NATO announced the suspension of practical cooperation with Russia, while maintaining political dialogue at the level of ambassadors and above.

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In 2018, the next permanent representative of Russia to NATO, Alexander Grushko, was relieved of his post, since then the position of the representative has remained vacant.

At the end of March 2018, Stoltenberg announced the expulsion of seven members of the Russian mission to NATO and the refusal of accreditation for three more. Prior to that, more than 20 countries announced the expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats as a sign of solidarity with Britain in the case of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter.

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